Two senior United Nations officials raised the alarm Friday that an attack on the North Darfur capital of El Fasher could be imminent and may trigger a deadly intercommunal conflict across Darfur. “In Darfur, recent reports indicate a possible imminent RSF attack on El Fasher, raising the specter of a new front in the conflict,” […]
The United States will withdraw its troops from Niger, a source familiar with the matter said late on Friday, adding that an agreement was reached between U.S Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and Niger’s leadership. As of last year, there were a little more than 1,000 U.S. troops in Niger, where the U.S. military […]
The World Bank Group (WBG) and the African Development Bank (AfDB) Group have committed to providing at least 300 million people in Africa with electricity access by 2030. While the World Bank would work to connect 250 million people to electricity through distributed renewable energy systems or the distribution grid, the AfDB would provide additional […]
The US Embassy and Emerging Public Leaders, an organization that strengthens public institutions to create change, have collaborated to train public officials in Ghana’s public safety sector on conflict management. The one-year training program, dubbed “the Professionals Engaged Against Conflict & Endangerment (PEACE) programme,” is being implemented by Ghana-based Emerging Public Leaders and seeks to […]
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has hosted Mr Robert Beugré Mambé, the Prime Minister of Côte d’Ivoire, at the Jubilee House, ahead of the inauguration of the Headquarters of the Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana Cocoa Initiative. The leaders held fruitful discussions regarding the ongoing co-operation in cocoa production for the mutual benefit of the two nations. The Côte […]
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Alieu Touray, has approved the deployment of a Fact-Finding Mission to Togo ahead of the legislative and regional elections scheduled for April 29, 2024. ECOWAS in a statement dated April 16, 2024, said the Mission will undertake a pre-electoral assessment in accordance with community texts and will not […]
A deadly heatwave in West Africa and the Sahel was “impossible” without human-induced climate change, scientists say. Temperatures soared above 48C in Mali last month with one hospital linking hundreds of deaths to the extreme heat. Researchers say human activities like burning fossil fuels made temperatures up to 1.4C hotter than normal. A separate study […]
Burkina Faso’s military junta has expelled three French diplomats for “subversive activities,” according to a government statement Thursday. The diplomats, two of whom are political advisers, were given 48 hours to leave and no additional details were shared about the alleged subversive activities. The French foreign ministry responded in a statement, saying it rejects the […]
In response to growing campaign violence, Chad’s transitional president, General Mahamat Idriss Deby, has ordered his military to arrest angry civilians and make sure peace reigns in the run-up to the May 6 presidential election and afterwards. Opposition and civil society groups, which have called for a boycott of the vote, which they dismiss as […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecasted a single-digit inflation rate of 8% for Ghana by the end of 2025, aligning with the government’s target for the same period. Ghana’s government aims to reduce the end-year inflation target from 23 percent to 15 percent in 2024, with further plans to reach a single-digit figure by […]
